Opinion: Tax policy should respect stability of Oregon logging businesses
Updated Mar 10, 2021;
Posted Mar 10, 2021
Logs, some of which came from trees killed in the Canyon Creek Complex fire, are stored in piles as they await milling at the Malheur Lumber Company saw mill in John Day, OR. Dave Killen / staff LC- The OregonianLC- The Oregonian
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Todd Payne
Payne is chief executive of Seneca Family of Companies and chairman of the board for the Oregon Forest and Industries Council.
The March 2 story “Oregon’s logging industry says it can’t afford new taxes” misunderstands the market complexities of our state’s most iconic industry. The severance tax proposed by HB 2379 would not be paid by mills making short-term profits on high lumber prices driven by homeowner remodeling demands during stay-at-home orders. It would be paid by 65,000 private forestland owners in Oregon who collectively just lost over 400,000 acres to wildfires.
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